Miami, United States
The senator for Florida marc Rubio warned that a political trial against outgoing President Donald Trump is counterproductive and could make him a “martyr,” as well as further divide the country at a difficult time.
“I think it will ignite a country even more divided and divided at an already difficult time,” the senator said in a statement to NBC’s Miami channel 6 about the impeachment process. Lower House to Washington approve initiate and to which the legislator opposes.
Loyal to the outgoing president during the four years of his term, the senator believes, however, that Trump has “some responsibility” in the Capitol assault that occurred last week, at a time when Congress was initiating certification of the Democrat Joe Biden as the next president of the United States.
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Rubio believes the political trial process involves “throwing gasoline on the fire.”
“A lot of the people who are out there for the first time, after seeing what happened last week, in a way considering the last four years, now, all of a sudden, they’re spinning in cars and threatening with turning him into a martyr, “he added.
In the same vein, Arizona Congressman Andy Biggs, another Republican who echoed Trump’s unsubstantiated allegations that the election was fraudulent, spoke in the House on Wednesday.
“His movement will be stronger because you will have made him a martyr,” he told Democratic lawmakers.
Rubio stressed that although he opposed the political trial, he condemned what happened last week and was opposed to “the president having to evade any responsibility.”
The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved the opening of a new political trial (“impeachment”) against outgoing President Donald Trump, this time on charges of “incitement to insurrection,” for the assault of last week at the Capitol.
Trump thus becomes the only president in U.S. history to be politically prosecuted twice.